Acting Quotes - Page 34

Brands need to take the phrase 'acting like a publisher literally.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I never studied. I was too afraid. I thought that if an acting teacher had said to me, "You know what, you're not good," I would not have gone any further. It was easier for me to justify going to an audition and getting rejected, maybe because they wanted somebody blonde, maybe because I wasn't experienced enough. I could live with that more easily.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

Acting is all about being truthful. I'm really bad at lying. I'm one of the worst liars I know.

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.

I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call indicating, when you twirl your mustache.

I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.

I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.

One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you knew it.

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

I don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it's what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason.